1 Samuel 8:19

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

But the people would not listen to Samuel. They said, “No, we want a king to rule over us.

Cross References

Jeremiah 44:16

“We will not listen to the message from the Lord that you spoke to us.

Ezekiel 33:31

So they come to you as if they were my people. They sit in front of you as if they were my people. They hear your words, but they will not do the things you say. They only want to do what feels good. They only want to cheat people and make more money.

Jeremiah 7:13

You people of Judah were doing all these evil things too. This message is from the Lord! I spoke to you again and again, but you refused to listen to me. I called to you, but you did not answer.

Isaiah 66:4

So I decided to use their own tricks. I will punish them using what they are most afraid of. I will do this because I called to them, but they did not answer. I spoke to them, but they did not listen. They did what I said is evil. They chose to do what I did not like.”

Psalm 81:11

“But my people did not listen to me. Israel did not obey me.

Deuteronomy 17:14

“You will enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you. You will take that land and live in it. Then you will say, ‘We will put a king over us, like all the nations around us.’

1 Samuel 12:12

But then you saw King Nahash of the Ammonites coming to fight against you. You said, ‘No, we want a king to rule over us!’ You said that, even though the Lord your God was already your king.

2 Kings 21:9

But the people did not listen to God. Manasseh did more evil things than all the nations that lived in Canaan before Israel came. And the Lord destroyed those nations when the Israelites came to take their land.

Psalm 81:12

So I let them go their own stubborn way and do whatever they wanted.